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Jul 12, 2019
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Presented on April 30, 1997 at Quarry Farm as part of the 1997 Spring "Trouble Begins at Eight" Lecture Series. Dr. Krauth is the co-chair for the August 14-16, 1997 conference on "The State of Mark Twain Studies." He is the author of numerous articles on Mark Twain. Dr. Krauth is currently at work on a book entitled Mark Twain: The Man in the White Linen Suit."
Topic: Early Works
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Jun 26, 2019
06/19
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Presented on Wednesday, May 17, 1989 at Quarry Farm. Edgar M. Branch is Research Professor Emeritus of English at Miami University and this spring's Distinguished Academic Visitor. He has authored three books and many articles on Twain and is co-editor of manh of the volumes in The Works of Mark Twain prepared by the Mark Twain Project for publication by the University of California Press. Professor Branch is a member of the Project's Board of Directors and is currently editing Roughing It...
Topic: Life on the Mississippi
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Jul 11, 2019
07/19
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Presented on Wednesday, October 5, 1994 at Quarry Farm. Pamela A. Boker, Columbia University.
Topics: Humor Studies, Grief
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Oct 8, 2018
10/18
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Presented on Saturday, October 6, 2018 at the Barn at Quarry Farm as part of the Quarry Farm Weekend Symposium "American Literary History and Economics in the New Gilded Age." Most participants in this seminar will recognize that I have inverted the terms of one of Howell's most enduring social essays, "The Man of Letters as a Man of Business," first published in 1893 - because I intend to come at some of the issues it raises from the other way around: to look at Howell's...
Topics: William Dean Howells, Economics
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Jul 16, 2019
07/19
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Presented on Wednesday, September 15, 1999 at Quarry Farm as part of the 1999 Fall "Trouble Begins at Eight" Lecture Series. Dr. Philip Leland Krauth, Professor at University of Colorado, author of The Proper Mark Twain (University of Georgia Press).
Topic: A Tramp Abroad
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Oct 31, 2019
10/19
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Presented on Wednesday, October 30, 2019 in the Barn at Quarry Farm as part of the 2019 Fall Trouble Begins Lecture Series. Samuel Clemens joked in one of his lectures that he has met "uncommonplace characters...Bunyan, Martin Luther, Milton, and...others, but it's not stretchign to say that he knew just about everyone famous between the Civil War and World War I. By 1892, his social network had grown so large that eleven-year-old Jean Clemens, impressed that her parents had received a...
Topics: Twain's Circle, Humor, Rhetoric
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Jul 25, 2017
07/17
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Presented on Wednesday, May 30 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. The United States annexed the Philippines in 1899, rationalizing its colonization of Filipinos as "benevolent assimilation." Twain, furious that his country was trying to become a colonialist power, called the rationale "hogwash" and "pious hypocrisy." Susan K. Harris examines a rarely seen political side of Twain, a man deeply engaged by world events and deeply disturbed by his country's foray into...
Topics: Imperialism, National Identity
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Jul 28, 2017
07/17
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Presented on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. In a letter to John Brown, a physician friend from Edinburgh, Scotland, Clemens wrote: "I wish you were here, to spend the summer with us. We are perched on a hill-top that overlooks a little world of green valleys, shining rivers, sumptuous forests, & billowy uplands veiled in the haze of distance. We have no neighbors. It is the quietest of all quiet places, & we are hermits that eschew caves & live...
Topics: Quarry Farm, Elmira
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Sep 1, 2017
09/17
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Presented on Wednesday, May 10, 2006 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. Sam Clemens began his professional life as a "printer's devil," an apprentice in a Hannibal shop - and throughout his life he kept up a keen interest in every phase of printing and publishing. Living through the most dramatic changes in those media since the time of the Gutenbergs, he tried to be a leader and a tycoon in these new industries. In his prime years, as an author, he involved himself in the entire...
Topics: Media Studies, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Aug 24, 2017
08/17
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Presented on Wednesday, September 29 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. Join biographer Jerome Loving for an up-close examination of the author and his times in 1884, one done as a "sequel" to Loving's recent biography, Mark Twain: The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens . The basis for this talk is the unpublished Prologue of a work-in-progress to be called " Annus Mirabilis : Mark Twain's America in 1885." With more than 25 illustrations, Dr. Loving's presentation will follow the...
Topics: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Biography
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Dec 9, 2016
12/16
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Presented at the Quarry Farm Barn on Wednesday, September 25, 2013. Ann Ryan is Professor of English at Le Moyne College where she chairs the English Department. She is coeditor of "A Due Voci: The Photography of Rita Hammond" and co-editor of Cosmopolitan Twain. She has served as the Editor of the "Mark Twain Annual" and has participated in many institutes and symposiums at the Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies. Although "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"...
Topics: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Civil War
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Jul 11, 2017
07/17
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Presented on Wednesday, November 11 at Quarry Farm. Leo Marx is a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work often examines the relationship between culture and technology in nineteenth and twentieth century America. His works include The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (1964), The Pilot and the Passenger: Essays on Literature, Technology, and Culture in the United States (1989), Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of...
Topics: Industrialization, Romanticism
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Sep 1, 2017
09/17
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Presented on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. On and off for more than a decade toward the end of his life, Mark Twain worked on what are today known collectively as The Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts. These pieces were not intended for publication, but were for the author's own edification, and for many years scholars have puzzled over their meaning and significance. Philip Fanning believes he has found a key to them: the writer's conflicted relationship with...
Topics: Family, Mysterious Stranger, Later Works
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Jun 14, 2018
06/18
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Presented on Wednesday, June 13, 2018 at the Park Church. It is well known that Twain took contemporary social, political, and particularly racial beliefs to task through an incisive skepticism which outpaced many of his generation. But Twain also understood the role that science and empiricism played in the formation and justification of social projects. Like many of his time, he was thrilled by the explosion of new technologies and systems that characterized the 19th century. For...
Topics: Science Fiction, Technology, Tragedy of Puddn'head Wilson, Later Works, Science
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Aug 24, 2018
08/18
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Recorded on August 23, 2018 at the Chemung County Historical Society. Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is known for its biting skepticism towards religion. However, there is also a deeper and more complex religious undercurrent coursing through Twain's classic that is often overlooked or misunderstood by contemporary readers. Dwayne Eutsey will explore how the "conservative-progressive" theology of Twain's good friend and pastor, Joe Twichell, may have influenced these...
Topics: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Elmira, Twain's Circle, Religion, Joseph Twichell
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Mar 22, 2018
03/18
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Presented on Wednesday, March 21, 2018 in Historic Cowles Hall on the Elmira College Campus. "Travelin' Man" looks into how Mark Twain's prodigious travels around his region, then the nation, then the world, have provided pleasure and scholarly thought for more than a century. Somewhat less appreciated has been the transformative effect Twain's lifelong appetite for exploration (move--move--Move!", he wrote in a letter to his family--) produced upon American literature, the...
Topics: Travel, Literary History, Gilded Age, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Innocents Abroad
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Aug 10, 2018
08/18
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Recorded on August 9, 2018 at the Chemung County Historical Society. The tropes of the innocent, who reveals cultural absurdities through his seemingly foolish observations, dates back to the earliest satires of Rome and Europe. This innocent brims with certainty that his ignorance is both apt and virtuous, and inspires audiences to laugh at his idiocy. I argue that during what was most commonly referred to as the Gilded Age, a clear thread of satire begins to emerge, one that shifts the...
Topics: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Diaries of Adam and Eve, Humor, National Identity
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Oct 13, 2017
10/17
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Presented on Wednesday, October 11, 2017 at the Quarry Farm Barn. In Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894), Mark Twain sends his most famous characters - Tom, Huck, and Jim - on an airship voyage across the Atlantic to Africa. By the time Twain wrote that novel, nearly 100 similar stories about young Americans in imaginary aircraft and other vehicles had appeared in magazines and serials. They featured boy inventors using their ingenuity and technology to take over remote locales, not unlike Twain's...
Topics: Science Fiction, Technology, Imperialism, Later Works
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Aug 23, 2017
08/17
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Presented on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. A voracious pack-rat, Mark Twain hoarded his readers' letters as did few of his contemporaries. Dear Mark Twain collects 200 of these letters written by a diverse cross-section of correspondents from around the world - children, farmers, schoolteachers, businessmen, preachers, railroad clerks, inmates of mental institutions, con artists, and even a former president. It is a unique and groundbreaking book - the first...
Topics: Letters, Mark Twain Project
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Jul 15, 2019
07/19
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Joseph Lemak
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Presented on October 8, 1997 at Quarry Farm as part of the 1997 Fall "Trouble Begins at Eight" Lecture Series. Andrew Hoffman, of Brown University, is the author of the recently published Inventing Mark Twain: The Lives of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1997). Professor Hoffman presented a paper entitled "Mark Twain's Last Deception" at the Late Mark Twain panel of the quadrennial "State of Mark Twain Studies" conference held in...
Topics: Biography, Public Image
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Oct 19, 2017
10/17
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Joseph Lemak
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Presented on Wednesday, October 18, 2017 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. While much instructive scholarship has been published treating Mark Twain's interest in and use of Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur as a predecessor text for A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court , his interest in and use of works from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales as potential predecessor texts for The Prince and the Pauper and Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc constitute a dimension of his medievalism that invites...
Topics: Connecticut Yankee, Joan of Arc, The Prince and The Pauper, Influences, Joan of Arc, Prince and the...
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Dec 9, 2016
12/16
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Presented on Wednesday, May 21, 2014 at the Quarry Farm Barn. Harriet Elinor Smith was educated at the University of California, Berkeley, and has been an editor at the Mark Twain Project in The Bancroft Library for over thirty-five years, producing numerous critical editions of the author’s literary works and letters. She is the editor of Autobiography of Mark Twain , Volume 1 (2010), Volume 2 (2013), and Volume 3 (2015), all published by the University of California Press. Mark Twain...
Topics: Autobiography, Research Methodology, Public Image, Letters
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Jul 10, 2019
07/19
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Presented on Wednesday, May 27, 1992 at Quarry Farm. Professor janet Kinch of Edinboro University of Pennsylvania will talk about "Mark Twain and Germany." Professor Kinch has both studied and taught in Austira and is the editor of both Mark Twain's German Critical Reception: An Annotated Bibliography and The Handbook of German Popular Culture published by Greenwood Press. She is also a contributor to scholarly reference works on Mark Twain.
Topic: Travel
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Jul 9, 2019
07/19
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Joseph Lemak
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Presented on Wednesday, May 29, 1991 at Quarry Farm. James D. Wilson, Professor of English at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, will speak on "Providence Gone Awry: Religion in Mark Twain's Later Career" under the auspices of the Center's Distinguished Academic Visitors program. The author of books, articles, and reviews in the field of Mark Twain Studies, Professor Wilson is the Executive Coordinator of the Mark Twain Circle of America and co-editor of the forthcoming Mark...
Topics: Religion, Later Years
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Sep 1, 2017
09/17
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Presented on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. For six months beginning in September 1870, a spate of family tragedies and crises left Mark Twain struggling to repeat the success of his first book, Innocents Abroad (1868). To get back on track, Clemens invited his lifelong friend, Joe Goodman, to spend the summer with him at Quarry Farm. With Goodman's encouragement, Mark Twain finished his second book, Roughing It (1872) and regained his self-confidence....
Topics: Nature, Later Works, Quarry Farm
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Jul 16, 2019
07/19
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Joseph Lemak
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Presented on May 26, 1999 at Quarry Farm as part of the 1999 Spring "Trouble Begins at Eight" Lecture Series. Join us to welcome Dr. Doyno, Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo, once again to Elmira College. He was the Center for Mark Twain Studies's first scholar-in-residence in 1984.
Topics: Family, Children
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Jul 12, 2019
07/19
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Presented on May 1, 1996 at Quarry Farm as part of the 1996 Spring "Trouble Begins at Eight" Lecture Series. Howard G. Baetzhold and Joseph B. McCullough are the editors of the recently published book The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings of Heaven, Eden, and The Flood (University of Georgia Press, 1995). Howard G. Baetzhold is the Rebecca Clifton Reade Professor of English Emeritus at Butler University and the Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies' first John S. Tuckey...
Topic: Religion
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Nov 2, 2017
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Presented on Wednesday, November 1, 2017 in Historic Cowles Hall on the Elmira College Campus. Obsession is frequently an overlooked focus of major literary works. In novels like Moby Dick , The Picture of Dorian Gray , The Aspern Papers , The Great Gatsby , and many others, characters are often driven to extremes by their various obsessions over various objects or concerns. But sometimes obsession infiltrates the author's audience as well. One manifestation of this is when a reader's...
Topic: Popular Culture
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Apr 27, 2017
04/17
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Joseph Lemak
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Presented on Wednesday. April 26, 2017 at Cowles Hall on the Elmira College Campus. Joseph Csicsila is Professor of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University. His writings include Canons by Consensus: Critical Trends and American Literature Anthologies (2004); Centenary Reflections on Mark Twain’s No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger (2009), co-edited with Chad Rohman; and Heretical Fictions: Religion in the Literature of Mark Twain (2010), co-authored with...
Topic: Economics
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Jul 28, 2017
07/17
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Joseph Lemak
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Presented on Wednesday, November 30, 2011 in Hamilton Hall on the Elmira College Campus. Mark Twain wrote, "Most us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out." Join Cindy Lovell as she describes the trajectory of love and devotion that led to the creation of "Mark Twain: Words & Music" - a tribute double CD project comprised of song and spoken word. Using Clemens's language and carefully selected songs (some written especially for the project), two...
Topic: Music
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Aug 24, 2017
08/17
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Presented on Wednesday, May 13 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. In the summer of 1883 close friends Joe Twichell and Samuel Clemens fell out over a piece of unwanted publicity the minister had published in the Hartford Courant - an incident with Quarry Farm origins. Clemens sent the clipping to relatives, scrawling on it: "I send this to beg that at least you folks will avoid this damned fool's example." It was one of several events that stand in relief against the two men's...
Topics: Joseph Twichell, Twain's Circle, Letters, Quarry Farm
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Jul 8, 2019
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Presented on Monday, July 24, 1989 in the Quarry Farm Barn. Hamlin Hill, Professor of English at Texas A&M University, will speak on "Late Mark Twain: From Bad Philosophy to Worse Literature." Professor Hill is the Center's Distinguished Fellow-in-Residence this summer. During his tenure here, he is the Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for Teachers on "The Heritage of Huckleberry Finn." Professor Hill has lectured throughout the...
Topic: Later Works
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Oct 6, 2019
10/19
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Joseph Lemak
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Presented on Saturday, October 5, 2019 in the Barn at Quarry Farm as part of the "Mark Twain and Nature" Quarry Farm Symposium. Although Mark Twain was not himself an environmentalist, he was deeply sensitive to the interdependence of humankind and the natural world, to the conditions, often difficult, under which we inhabit the natural world, and to its ultimate indifference to our desires -- issues that continue to preoccupy environmentalists and ecocritics, whether they are...
Topics: Nature, Life on the Mississippi
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Jul 11, 2019
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Presented on Monday, September 21, 1992 at Quarry Farm. Sanford Pinsker, Shadek Humanities Professor at Franklin and Marshall College, will talk about "Mark Twain and the Jews." Professor Pinsker is the author of numerous, books, articles, and reviews in the fields of American literature and American-Jewish literature and culture, serves on the editorial boards of a variety of literary reviews and journals, has taught abroad as a Fulbright Senior Lecturer, and is the author of a...
Topic: Jewish Studies
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May 20, 2020
05/20
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Joseph Lemak
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Presented on Wednesday, May 20, 2020 on line as part of the 2020 Spring Trouble Begins Lecture Series. This lecture was previously presented for the Chemung County Historical Society 2020 Civil War Lecture Series. Mark Twain did not go to Elmira during the Civil War, so the title has some deliberate ambiguity. What Elmira held during the last year of the war was a prisoner of camp, and I am intrigued with the idea that Twain might have visited the site with the small dread that he could...
Topics: American Civil War, Life on the Mississippi
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Jul 16, 2019
07/19
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Joseph Lemak
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Presented on May 6, 1998 at Quarry Farm as part of the 1998 Spring "Trouble Begins at Eight" Lecture Series. Chad Rohman is the Spring 1998 Research Fellow-in-Residence at Quarry Farm. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in English at Bowling Green State University.
Topic: Epistemology
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Aug 7, 2017
08/17
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Joseph Lemak
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Presented on Friday, August 4, 2017 in the Tripp Lecture Hall on the Elmira College Campus as part of Elmira 2017: The Eighth International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies. According to Mark Twain’s narrator in Roughing It (1872), when he and his older brother Orion left Missouri for Nevada Territory in July, 1861, the older brother carried a “small-sized Colt’s revolver,” and the younger was armed with a “pitiful little Smith and Wesson’s seven-shooter.” These...
Topics: Violence, Technology
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Jul 28, 2017
07/17
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Joseph Lemak
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Presented on Wednesday, May 18, 2012 in the Barn at Quarry Farm. "Unconscious cerebration," "unconscious plagiarism," "mental telegraphy" - Mark Twain had various names for what the brain seemingly does beyond our consciousness. Tom Sawyer mutters in his sleep the truth about the murder of Doc Robinson. Tom Canty, the pauper disguised as the prince, reveals his identity to his mother by his uncontrollable reflex action of shielding his eyes when startled....
Topics: Psychology, Science
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Jul 16, 2019
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Presented on April 22, 1998 at Quarry Farm as part of the 1998 Spring "Trouble Begins at Eight" Lecture Series. Dr. Mitchell is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Elmira College. He is the author of Individualism and Its Discontents: Appropriations of Emerson, 1880-1950 (University of Massachusetts Press, 1997).
Topic: Religion
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Jun 14, 2017
06/17
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Joseph Lemak
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Presented on Wednesday, May 24, 2017 in The Barn at Quarry Farm. Hoi Na Kung is currently a third-year doctorate student in the English department at Indiana University, where she specializes in 19th and 20th century American literature with an emphasis on critical race studies and gender studies. She is currently working on a project exploring representations of sensory experiences in African American and Asian American literature written in the age of globalization. Mark Twain’s A...
Topics: Gender Studies, Connecticut Yankee, Technology
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Jul 11, 2019
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Presented on Wednesday, October 26, 1994 at Quarry Farm. Laura E. Skandera-Trombley, State University of New York at Potsdam.
Topics: Elmira, Women's Studies
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Jul 16, 2019
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Joseph Lemak
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Presented on Wednesday, October 21, 1998 at Quarry Farm as part of the 1998 Fall "Trouble Begins at Eight" Lecture Series. Dr. Driscoll is Professor of English at Saint Joseph College in Hartford, Connecticut. She is currently working on a book about Mark Twain and Native Americans.
Topics: Native Americans, The Innocents Abroad
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Jul 9, 2019
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Joseph Lemak
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Presented on Wednesday, November 6, 1991 at Quarry Farm. Professor Myra Glenn of Elmira College's History faculty will talk on "Love, Sex, and Death in the Victorian Marriage: The Case of Thomas K. Beecher, Olivia Day, and Julia Jones." Dr. Glenn has authored books, articles, and reviews in the field of nineteenth century American social history. She is well into a book length study of Thomas K. Beecher and has spoken previously at the Center on her work-in-progress.
Topics: Twain's Circle, Elmira
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Jun 26, 2019
06/19
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Joseph Lemak
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Presented on Wednesday, March 9, 1988 at Quarry Farm. Professor Robert Regan of the University of Pennsylvania's English Department will speak about Mark Twain's view of art in a talk titled "The Art Ignoramus and the Art Snob: Mark Twain and John Ruskin." Professor Regan is the spring's Distinguished Academic Visitor at the Center. He has publsihed widely on mark Twain and other American authors. His principal work is Uncompromising Heroes: Mark Twain and his Characters ,...
Topics: Art, Influences
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Nov 22, 2016
11/16
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Joseph Lemak
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Presented at Elmira College Peterson Chapel on November 2, 2016. Dr. Lee is the Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies and Charles E. Zumkehr Professor of Rhetoric & Culture in the Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University. Samuel L. Clemens pioneered a modern understanding of the new information economy emerging in the U.S. in the years after the Civil War because he understood and marketed Mark Twain as a brand-name comic commodity. Lee explains how Clemens...
Topics: Branding, Public Image, Economics
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Dec 10, 2016
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Joseph Lemak
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Presented on Wednesday, September 24 at the Quarry Farm Barn. Chad Rohman is Professor of English and Director of the Core Curriculum at Dominican University in River Forest, IL. He is the editor of the Mark Twain Annual and co-editor, with Joe Csicsila, of Centenary Reflections on Mark Twain’s No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger (University of Missouri Press, 2009). His primary research interests include nineteenth-century American literature, particularly Mark Twain and his cohort, American...
Topics: Religion, Influences, Social Justice
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Jun 15, 2017
06/17
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Joseph Lemak
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Presented on Wednesday, June 14, 2017 at the Park Church. Molly Ball is an Assistant Professor of English at Eureka College. She received her PhD in 2016 from the University of California at Davis, and she is currently at work on a book manuscript, tentatively titled, “Writing Out of Time: Temporal Vulnerability in Nineteenth-Century Narrative,” that explores narrative structure in Anglophone literature. She is particularly interested in questions about national identity and travel, and...
Topics: Travel, Hawaii
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May 28, 2019
05/19
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Joseph Lemak
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Presented on Wednesday, May 22 in Cowles Hall on the Elmira College Campus as part of the Spring 2019 "Trouble Begins" Lecture Series. This lecture focuses on the findings of the Quarry Farm Historic Structures Report, being prepared by Johnson-Schmidt & Associates (Preservation Architects) for the Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies. As of the recording of this lecture, the Quarry Farm historic structures report was still not yet fully completed. Elise Johnson-Schmidt...
Topics: Quarry Farm, Architecture, Preservation
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Jul 16, 2019
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Joseph Lemak
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Presented on Wednesday, September 29, 1999 at Quarry Farm as part of the 1999 Fall "Trouble Begins at Eight" Lecture Series. Dr. Peter Messent, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Topic: Humor Studies
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Jul 11, 2019
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Presented on Wednesday, October 28, 1992 at Quarry Farm. Michael Kiskis of Empire State College/SUNY will consider "'A Complete and Purposed Jumble': The Problem of Mark Twain's Autobiography." Professor Kiskis has published books, articles, and reviews in the field of Mark Twain Studies and serves as the Executive Coordinator of the Mark Twain Circle of America and the Director of the American Humor Studies Association.
Topic: Autobiography
